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Old gentleman country club feel names please..

90 replies

Blodeuwedd · 03/04/2014 22:40

that are still masculine, strong and sexy?!
I know it's a tall order but any suggestions would be gratefully received!

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stonehairbrush · 04/04/2014 00:28

PUBERT?!?!?

LineRunner · 04/04/2014 00:32

Pubert was the real name of 'Mac' Elder. Pubert Macintosh Elder.

GarlicAprilShowers · 04/04/2014 00:37

Old gentlemen in country clubs aren't called by their actual names! They go by such 'masculine, strong, sexy' monikers as Buffy, Bunty, Beefy, Boffy, (and work your way through the alphabet.)

You MUST be American Grin

GarlicAprilShowers · 04/04/2014 00:45

... but, if you're just looking for posh English names, allow me to read you a few from our headlines:
Charles Philip Arthur George
William Arthur Philip Louis
Henry Charles Albert David
David William Donald
George Gideon Oliver
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel

At least Boris got an interesting one ...

elQuintoConyo · 04/04/2014 00:49

"I felt so damn sorry for poor old Cunty that I couldn't touch my breakfast. I told Jeeves to drink it himself."

  • apologies to PG Wodehouse.
GarlicAprilShowers · 04/04/2014 00:59

Grin the temptation's just too great, isn't it

mathanxiety · 04/04/2014 03:23

Nah, if she was American she would know that nobody called Seth would ever be admitted to an old fashioned country club.

Country Club names from days of yore would all be surnamey in the US:
Lyman
Milton
Philander
Emory
Harlan
Sargent
Clark
Ogden

and names like
Edwin
William
Curtis
Roy
Herbert
Howard

Suggestions:
Marshall
Mitchell

MummyJ1977 · 04/04/2014 03:26

Cuthhbert

SconeRhymesWithGone · 04/04/2014 03:35

I know (or know of) actual country clubbers (in the US) with these first names:

Peyton
Cameron
Archer
Farris
Barrington (called Skip)

Eastpoint · 04/04/2014 06:29

Ned is short for Edward

florascotia · 04/04/2014 09:18

If we're thinking Downton Abbey /Edwardian/WWI era, then popular posh names in England then were

Harold
Edward
Albert
Arthur
Alfred
Leopold
George
Ernest
Edgar
Frederick
Algernon
Reginald
John
Clarence
Horace
Victor
Gerald
Claude
Edwin
Lancelot
Theodore
Herbert
Augustus
Oswald

Scots had Scottish posh classics:

James
Alexander
Robert
Hugh
Donald
David
Roderick
Hector
nothing too dramatically Celtic - that was for radical/arty types and Scottish peasants

Also family surnames - if very grand and ancient, and ideally showing descent from the Norman conquerors - used as Christian names: think Baskerville, Fitzjames, Percival, Digby OR place names connected for centuries with the family,eg Wigmore,

Definitely not Jethro (=peasant), Sebastian (saint's name = only for aristocratic Catholics at that time, along with Aloysius etc)

But very much, as earlier poster said, nicknames: Bertie, Pongo, Wiggy etc

stopprocrastinating · 04/04/2014 12:52

Cecil
Orlando
Duncan
Percy

porkincider · 04/04/2014 15:22

Cunty is by far the most country club gent name out there. I can understand if you have reservations though.

Gerald
Eric
Howard
Sebastian

Realitybitesyourbum · 04/04/2014 21:51

Interview just the kind of guy you are describing today. His name was Alexis

BiscuitMillionaire · 04/04/2014 21:54

Old gentleman country club just reminds me of Paul Whitehouse going 'I was vair drunk'.

FourAndDone · 04/04/2014 21:55

Bernard.Smile

MichaelFinnigan · 04/04/2014 22:14

Bunny

Seth = farmhand

MichaelFinnigan · 04/04/2014 22:15

X post biscuit

barnet · 04/04/2014 22:15

Ranulph

nyldn · 04/04/2014 22:20

Garlic - that's so funny.... my dh calls all old school country club couples "Biff and Muffy". Picturing a v-neck cable jumper tied around his shoulders and a martini in hand....

squoosh · 04/04/2014 22:22

My uncle tried to join a country club in America in the 1960's. They told him in no uncertain terms that his surname didn't fool them and they could tell quite clearly from his nose that he was Jewish and he wouldn't be allowed membership!

LoveVintage · 04/04/2014 22:30

Am pissing myself at Pubert.

Maitland
Farquhar

I used to know someone called Gilles ie Gil-les not Giles. I think it is a lovely name and a bit posh sounding.

BikeRunSki · 04/04/2014 22:31

Rex

mathanxiety · 04/04/2014 22:32

The golfer Tom Watson, whose wife was Jewish, resigned from the Kansas City Country Club because they blackballed tycoon Henry Bloch in 1990.

KC in a nutshell.

stinkingbishop · 04/04/2014 22:35

Blaise
Douglas
Diggory
Crawford
Mallory
Jonty
Tristan
Timothy
Edmund

And Rupert. Obviously. Has has been mentioned several times. You have to use Rupert. His yellow checked trousers, perhaps in a nice cordurouy, are very sherry and the Telegraph and tipping the buxom waitress....